But ever since cerebral organoids were first created from stem cells in 2013, they have ignited
an intense ethical debate, including about whether they can suffer, feel pain, or be conscious — and whether they have human rights.
The
intense debate in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history, and contemporary applicability of just war theory» much of it conducted in the pages of First Things» has been instructive and for the most part at a high level of conceptual and
ethical sophistication.